I hope everyone had a happy holidays (and good New Years hangover recovery).

As you are probably aware by now, the 1.0 release of Imprudence lacked one key feature: sound. The libraries Linden Lab’s viewer uses to handle sound are both proprietary, and since Imprudence is released under the GPLv2 license, these libraries are incompatible with our viewer. Hence, they’ve been disabled.

In keeping with our Imprudent spirit, we decided it was best to put 1.0 out there for the masses to test and enjoy, while we worked behind the scenes to correct this deficit (and others) for our next release.

I’m pleased to say that thus far, we have the following working on Linux and Windows:

Inworld sound using OpenAL.

Streaming media (music, videos, and webpages) using GStreamer.

Both are fully GPL-compatible, and rely on work done by the community.

A preview pic:

Imprudence 1.1.0 alpha build

I know it can be hard to get much from an image, but if you were looking at my screen you’d notice a few things:

Excellent step forwards! I’m not exactly an audio fan, but, alas, I enjoy my concerts now and then too It’s wonderful to know I won’t need to use the crashy RC any more to attend those, and can smoothly enjoy the stability of Imprudence